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Utah's gift to Montana

Post by JDoub » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:04 pm

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FROMBERG, Mont. (AP) -- A religious sect whose house was raided by federal agents in Utah and whose building plans were rejected in Idaho has settled in southern Montana.

Members of the Church of the Firstborn and General Assembly of Heaven left Fort Hall, Idaho, in October after their proposal to build a three-story, 18,000-square-foot motel-like building on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation was rejected by the Shoshone and Bannock tribes.

About 16 members of the group have moved into two rental houses on a 5-acre lot in the Fromberg area.

"We all prayed about where to go next, and a lot of people had the same feeling that we ought to go to Montana, somewhere nigh unto Billings, not the city, but nearby," said Terrill Dalton.

Dalton, 43, said he grew up as a Mormon but received a revelation in 2004 -- in which Jesus Christ called him the Holy Ghost -- that he should start a new church.

Co-leader Geody Harman, 36, his wife and their nine children are among the remaining 16 members of the church. Harman said the church had about 30 members when they lived in Idaho, but many of them left the group "weary of the persecution against them."

Last May, the church's headquarters in Magna, Utah, was raided by federal agents investigating claims of child sexual abuse and assassination threats against President Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.



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Re: Utah's gift to Montana

Post by ChiOCat » Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:24 pm

I wasn't sure where Fromberg was off the top of my head, but now I know it's nigh unto Billings.


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Re: Utah's gift to Montana

Post by CapitalCityCat » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:23 pm

They just heard that Jenna Jameson once lived on a ranch near Fromberg. Praying had nothing to do with it :wink:



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Re: Utah's gift to Montana

Post by Billings_Griz » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:49 am

CapitalCityCat wrote:They just heard that Jenna Jameson once lived on a ranch near Fromberg. Praying had nothing to do with it :wink:

Who is Jenna Jameson? :mrgreen:



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Re: Utah's gift to Montana

Post by AlphaGriz1 » Thu Apr 01, 2010 11:38 am

I hear shes from Fromberg.
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I am fond of the Two Bear Tavern in Fromberg.


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